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Ganapavaram (Huzurnagar)

Village in the old Huzurnagar taluk where a broken pillar of January 1214 records the founding of the town of Ganapatipura and its Rudreshvara temple by Devapala, a servant of the Kakatiyas who had been brought up by the prince Jagaddeva.

Ganapatipura

Ganapavaram lay in the Huzurnagar taluk of the old Nalgonda district. A broken stone pillar lying in its Venkatesha temple carries a damaged Sanskrit inscription. P. Sreenivasachar published it in 1940 as No. 22 of his Corpus of Inscriptions in the Telingana Districts.1 It records that Devapala’s father served king Jagaddeva, and that Jagaddeva brought Devapala up.21 After Jagaddeva, the Kakatiya chief Prola “brought him up with care and consideration”.2 Devapala created a town called Ganapatipura beside a large tank.21 There, in January 1214, he installed the god Rudreshvara.21 See the Ganapavaram inscription of Devapala.

Footnotes

  1. P. Sreenivasachar (ed.), A Corpus of Inscriptions in the Telingana Districts, Part II (1940), p. 189, list of inscriptions, No. 22 (archive.org (opens in a new tab)). Paraphrased. ↩ ↩2 ↩3 ↩4

  2. Sreenivasachar, Corpus, Part II (1940), p. 77 (archive.org (opens in a new tab)). Paraphrased. ↩ ↩2 ↩3 ↩4

Inscriptions

Ganapavaram inscription of Devapala

1214 CE

A damaged Sanskrit pillar inscription of January 1214 at Ganapavaram in the Huzurnagar taluk. It records how Devapala founded the town of Ganapatipura and its Rudreshvara temple. Devapala's father had served the Paramara prince Jagaddeva, and Devapala was then taken into the service of the Kakatiya Prola II.

References

Sources (1)
  1. P. Sreenivasachar (ed.), A Corpus of Inscriptions in the Telingana Districts of H.E.H. the Nizam's Dominions, Part II: Texts and Translations (opens in a new tab), H.E.H. the Nizam's Government, 1940, pp. 77, 189. No. 22. Paraphrased. [Public domain in India]

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